Applegate Archives - Gluten Free Mike

Next up in my Everyday Luxuries series is a gluten-free take on an American classic — the corn dog. Many people my age were diagnosed later in life — in my case twenty years or so later — so we ate non-gluten-free for a significant portion of our lives. This of course means that there are certain items that we enjoyed but we not always able to find or…

I just wanted to post a follow-up to my earlier post about theApplegate Recall and the GIG Gluten-Free Product Certification (GFCO) program. In my original post, I posed an open question to GIG Executive Director, Cynthia Kupper…

I have had many people contact me regarding the Applegate Gluten-Free Chicken Nugget recall namely because they could not understand how something like this could happen to a product that carries the Gluten Intolerance Group’s (GIG) Certified Gluten-Free certification seal. First off, I want to state that I am a huge supporter of advocacy groups like GIG who help raise awareness for Celiacs like myself. They do great work and this post is not meant to belittle the work that they do but rather to question one part of that work that might be outside of their operational depth…